Resident Evil 4 Remake speedrunners are already clearing its hardest difficulty in under two hours
Resident Evil 4 remake speedrunners are already completing the game's hardest difficulty in under two hours.
As first noted by PC Gamer (opens in new tab), speedrunner spicee has managed to beat Resident Evil 4 remake's supremely tough 'Professional' difficulty setting in under two hours. To be precise, that's merely one hour, 58 minutes, and 47 seconds taken to beat Capcom's latest horror remake on the hardest difficulty it has to offer.
The Professional difficulty might be just downright torture for most, but not for this speedrunner. It's important to note that, as per the rules on speedrun.com (opens in new tab), out-of-bounds glitches are allowed for the Professional speedruns, but using extra treasure maps, and items that give you a gameplay advantage like the sunglasses, are entirely ruled out.
What's key to this Professional run from spicee is to simply avoid most enemies, and not even bother trying to parry them out of your way, as the parry timing window is so punishing. There's also, as you can probably imagine from a speedrun at under two hours, absolutely zero time for any side activities, including saving the poor dog that helps Leon out in the first El Gigante fight.
Completing Resident Evil 4 remake in under two hours on Professional difficulty is just bananas, and so far, spicee is the only player in the world to have managed it. The second-best Professional run comes from Captain Ezekiel (opens in new tab), who managed the mode in a blistering two hours and nine minutes.
Speedrun.com (opens in new tab) shows that five other players have got their speedruns under two hours, but they're all playing on the Standard difficulty mode. The world record holder in that category is speedrunner Frit, whose
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